using ancient traditions to treat modern struggles with autism sarah williams, psy.d. ed kaleolani...

Using Ancient Traditions to Treat Modern Struggles with

Autism

Sarah Williams, Psy.D. www.drsarahmonique.com

Ed Kaleolani Spencer, Kahu o Manawww.kekumu.com

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Motor Difficulties

• Tripping over your feet

• Walking into walls

• Trouble learning to write

• Difficulty learning to Skip

Sensory Integration Deficits

• Inappropriate voice modulation

• Crawling Skin n

• Sensitivity to noise

• Bumping into walls

Social Skills

• Relentlessly Teased

– Difficulty reading– Inability to tell time– Completely disorganized– Struggle understanding sarcasm– Looking disheveled– Joining conversations at inappropriate times

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• Increased integration and awareness of body positioning.

• Strengthened visual processing. • Substantial decrease in anxiety.• Less hyper and more sense of peace. • Increased ability to express my

authentic self.

Personal Benefits of Hawaiian Treatments

Ancient Hawaiian Healing Arts

• Observation of nature and human application

• Use of energy /physical manipulation herbs, plants and social aspects

Languaging and understanding as it

relates to modern day

• Common mechanisms different terms

• Science and soul

Elements as they relateto the nervous system

• Fire • Air

• Water

• Earth

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Subtle Energy and Healing

•Stimulation of biological process

•Stimulation of emotional process

•Stimulation of social process